Nominator's project description
| Hans-Georg Ritter receives the Humboldt Forschungspreis for his seminal contributions to the experimental exploration of nuclear collisions at relativistic energies. His discovery (with H. Gutbrod and A. Poskanzer) of hydrodynamic flow effects in such collisions continues to play an important role in present-day experiments. He pioneered the construction of large scale tracking devices for the simultaneous detection of thousends of charged particles produced in such collisions and, together with his group at LBNL, Berkeley, led the way towards the recently discovered "jet-quenching" phenomenon at the RHIC accelerator, Brookhaven. During his stay in Germany he will work on new ways, based on
micro-electronics and large compute farms, to characterize within milliseconds
the state of nuclear collisions both at the upcoming Large hadron Collider at
CERN, Geneva and at the planned FAIR facility at GSI, Darmstadt. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2007 | STAR Collaboration, B.I. Abelev et al.: Partonic flow and phi-meson production in Au + Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.. In: Physical Review Letters, 2007, 112301 |
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| 2007 | Hans Georg Ritter: Prospect for an Energy Scan at RHIC. In: POS (CPOD2006), 2007, 015 |
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| 2007 | Hans Georg Ritter: The Role of Collective Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions. In: International Journal of Modern Physics E, 2007, 677-685 |
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